Orbex: Rocket-maker secures £20m investment from UK government ahead of take off

The UK government has invested £20m in rocket-maker Orbex as it prepares to build and launch from its site in the Shetland Islands. The injection of funding is expected to help back Orbex’s Prime, the first UK-manufactured and UK-launched orbital rocket.   Prime is scheduled to take off towards the end of this year at the [...]